About this objectA plywood paper lined box containing medical instruments, surgical equipment, gauze, blades, syringes, cotton wool.
Box has 2 hooks on front and a G clip into rings.
Items include:
1 scalpel with blade protector - S Maw Sons & Sons
2 Scalpel handles with decoration, Nos. 3 and 4 Swann-Morton
1 Curved blade - Arnold v Sons, Smithfield
3 sets tweezers
1 pair scissors
1 set forceps - sinus forceps
5 scalpel blades
1 narrow glass cylinder with screw top of 'Vernaid - fast edge' Ribbon gauze for plugging, 12 yards x half inch thick - Vernaid and Co. Ltd, Preston. Superfine. English manufacturer, Registered Trade Mark.
1 brown glass jar screw lid containing suture needle and thread in cotton wool, 1 silver clamp, 1 screw.
1 glass phial with cork stopper of 17 tablets of T.T. Mercury Binio side 1-8 gram.
1 stainless steel instrument with cross hatching on shaft for grip and 2 smooth ends - one thicker and with a hole and the other end a thinner rod.
1 gun-like looking implement, handle is a non-conductive material (brown) with 2 holes drilled from front to back. Protruding from the front holes are 2 copper rods bound together with copper wire. From the 2 back holes the wires coming from the rods are taped together and form an electrical cord, the end of the cord shows 2 insulated (red and black) leads with wires protruding from each.
1 small compressed cotton wool bale (1 ounce), British made by Greenhalgh's Pty Ltd, Sydney, Melbourne, Wellington, N.Z.
3 circles of absorbent paper (perhaps filter paper)
2 jug elements
1 glass beaker packed with cotton wool containing a glass implement bulb contains a blob of mercury in the tube but also liquid mercury in the bulb at the base. In the top section on one side are the words 'Diabetes 60 degrees F W', the other side is a scale 0-60.
Above implement x 2 - urinometer.
1 rubber test tube stopper with a stainless steel hollow tube through the middle which branches into 2 at the top.
1 packet with stethoscope ends with round disk (maybe) plastic
1 cork
3 glass slides in gauze one written on 'use pencil for this.
3 wads of gauze
1 scalpel blade protector (made of elastoplast) 1 cotton cloth
1 metal instrument
2 packets surgical blades - Swann-Morton Nos. 10x20
1 packet surgical blades No. 10, No. 23 - Friar B.P. type
1 packet surgical needles (William Pearce & Co., 154 Castlereagh St, Sydney) 2 only in half a dozen packets - half circle triangular = fine.
1 packet surgical needles (Acufirm - E204/20) 7 only in a dozen packet.
[These items are stored in a green, linen lock box with information panel on front, Merson's Selected Horse Hair, Registered in Great Britain, 100 Strands - 24 inch. G.F Merson, Ltd, Edinburgh, Scotland].
1 Silkworm gut, sutures cylinder containing:
3 metal sutures needles
2 glass bulbous rods with measurements on side
cotton wool and gauze for protection
1 metal tin (original) Record Three Arrow Mark) on lid. Contains syringe (Balco-British Made), heat resistant glass in 2 parts; one surgical blade, 1 screw.
1 metal surgical instrument with 4 ridged silver handle (Allen and Hanburys, London) 52 written on handle. Instrument has a scabbard covering a needle with a long shaft.
The needle shaft protrudes from end of shaft.
2 instruments with fine wire protruding from end of shaft
1 black metal tin (round) with lid containing strands of nylon-type strands, perhaps suture material.
1 glass tube of 'Lovell's sterile plain catgut No D
Makerunknown
Date Mademid - late 20th C
Place Madeunknown
MeasurementsH. 25.4cm
D. 8.5cm
W. 35.5cm
Subject and Association Descriptionpaper lined box
